Antonio Wilson said his mother was an angel and loved being a foster mother. He's hoping police will get to the bottom of who killed her, his father, and two of their four foster children.

"It honestly could be anybody," he said.

Wilson has been left to wonder who intentionally set his parents' house on fire early Wednesday morning, killing his mother, 57-year-old Lisa Brown, his father, 62-year-old Reginald Wilson, and two of their foster children, 15-year-old Ja'Quan Rattler and 8-year-old Royalty Rattler. 

"We lost an angel. We lost a great woman. So, y'all remember that. Y'all keep my momma in your prayers, and y'all remember her. And my pops and Royal and Ja'Quan, they didn't deserve what happened to them. So, y'all remember them, just like we will," Wilson said.

Fire crews were called to an extra-alarm fire at his parents' home at 62nd and Paulina in West Englewood around early Wednesday morning.

Brown and Wilson suffered severe burns and later died at the hospital. Ja'Quan and his sister, Royalty, died after being taken to Comer Children's Hospital. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled their deaths as homicides.

Ten-year-old Iyanna Flowers said Royalty was her best friend.

"Why they did that to my friend? Because we had a whole future planned. Like, after college, we would go to each other's houses and play and go to the park," she said.

Wilson said his mother not only fostered Ja'Quan and Royalty, but another set of siblings – Bryan and Byron – who survived the fire. They were being treated at Comer Children's Hospital.

"He's still in critical condition and as far as I know, Byron is also still in critical condition, but they both will make it, depending on surgery," Wilson said.

While Flowers isn't related to Wilson's parents, she said they were her great-godparents and they'll truly be missed.

"Why they had to kill my grandma and my grandpa? Because my grandpa used to do my hair, and my grandma used to give me a lot of snacks and kisses," she said.

Wilson said his mom plans an annual family trip every July. He plans to keep her tradition alive.

While police have confirmed they are conducting an arson investigation, it remained unclear on Thursday who set the house on fire.

Ten buildings that once housed Schlitz "brewery-tied houses," and an 11th that housed a Schlitz brewery stable, are official Chicago city landmarks. But these are only a fraction of the former tied houses around the city once linked to Schlitz and other breweries, some of which went out of business long ago.

What were tied houses?

As explained by the website Forgotten Chicago, the tied house business model was first developed in England, and became commonplace in the U.S. in the years before Prohibition. A brewery supplied everything a saloon operator needed to run the business, and in turn, the saloon was allowed only to serve that brewery's beer.

While there were other breweries with tied houses in Chicago, Milwaukee-based Schlitz claimed the largest number.

Why this setup? Forgotten Chicago noted that in 1884, saloon license fees in Chicago were raised dramatically to squeeze out seedy dive bars. Some owners couldn't afford the fee and turned to breweries for help, and tied houses controlled by breweries were the result.

While breweries started out buying existing saloons, they later began acquiring and constructing budlings for new saloons too, according to the Chicago Commission on Landmarks. They often went for high-quality architectural designs with historical features, in part in an effort to convey legitimacy and respectability when the temperance movement was coming after saloons and alcohol.

The business model was a booming success for the breweries, as bar patrons going to tied houses had options other than one brewery's products, Forgotten Chicago notes. The number of saloons in Chicago jumped in the 1890s, leading to cutthroat competition and price wars among the breweries and their tied houses.

Tied houses ended when the 18th Amendment enacted Prohibition and banned the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages in 1919. After the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933, the federal government gave the states authority to control alcoholic beverage sales, and most states adopted three-tier systems in which manufacturers sold to distributors and distributors to retailers or bars.

This meant no more tied houses. But former tied houses remain standing proudly throughout Chicago, and more than a few house bars today.

Where are Chicago's tied houses?

In 2011, eight former Schlitz tied houses and a brewery stable were granted Chicago landmark designation, but these were far from the only ones left — published reports say there were at least 41 as of that time. Two more former tied houses have also since been added as landmarks.

The first eight former Schlitz tied houses to win the landmark designation were:

• 958 W. 69th St. in Englewood, formerly home to the Caribbean Lounge. This limestone-clad Queen Anne-style building was constructed in 1898, features a Schlitz globe right below its gable. Block Club Chicago reported in 2024 that Englewood resident Jennipher Adkins received a $250,000 Adopt-a-Landmark grant to repair the building and turn it into a café.

• 1944 N. Oakley Ave. in Bucktown, home to Floyd's Pub. The stone and brick building features a pressed metal window bay overlooking the Oakley Avenue frontage, and a painted Schlitz globe hanging over Armitage Avenue.

• 3456 S. Western Ave. in Brighton Park, home to One Stop Market. This building is also a Queen Anne-style building with a dramatic turret with a witch's-hat roof above the front door and a Schlitz globe on the wall to the left. The building was constructed in 1899, according to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.

• 1801 W. Division St. in Wicker Park, home to Mac's Wood Grilled. This German Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900 and features a corner turret and a colorfully painted terra cotta Schlitz globe facing Division Street.

•  3159 N. Southport Ave. in Lakeview, home to the popular bar and concert venue Schubas Tavern since 1989. The Schubas building was constructed in 1903, and features quiltlike brickwork and not one, but two Schlitz globes — one facing Southport Avenue, the other Belmont Avenue. Schubas also features a pink neon Schlitz sign hanging over Belmont Avenue, and still serves Schlitz beer to this day. Meanwhile, its adjoining restaurant is called what else but Tied House.

•  2159 W. Belmont Ave. in Roscoe Village, home to a Starbucks Coffee. The three-story Queen Anne-style building features a corner turret with pressed-metal classical architectural features, and a Schlitz globe at the apex. This building was also constructed in 1903.

•  5120 N. Broadway in Uptown, now the South-East Asia Center preschool. This two-story German Renaissance Revival building features a prominent turret with porthole windows at its peak, and a faded Schlitz globe facing Broadway. Two additions to the building were built — one on the rear along Winona Street in 1908, the second on the Broadway side in 1934-45. A wraparound sign at the base of the turret reads "Restaurant," but there has not been a restaurant in the building anytime recently. The nonprofit education and social service organization the South-East Asia Center has used the building as a preschool for many years.

•  11400-04 S. Front Ave. in Roseland, just across the railroad tracks from what was once the historic Pullman industrial town, where workers were not allowed to consume alcohol. This building, according to the Chicago Commission on Landmarks, was one of three tied houses built in 1906 as part of Schlitz Row — a development that also included housing for Schlitz workers and a stable. A Schlitz globe that matches the dark brown brick frontage can be found just below the roof. Real estate reports show the building was purchased in 2019; its current use is unclear. Down the street is the former Schlitz stable for delivery horses at 11314-20 S. Front Ave., now home to the Pullman Tech Workshop.

Two more former Schlitz tied houses have received landmark status since 2011:

• 9401 S. Ewing Ave. in South Chicago, now undergoing redevelopment as East Side Tap. This 1907 Queen Anne-style building features a Schlitz globe, and also used to feature a Schlitz globe stained-glass window that published reports say was removed around 2016 and sold. Over the years, the building has housed Club Selo, featuring Serbian tamburitza music, and J.B.'s Bamboo Club, later the Bamboo Lounge. The building became a Chicago landmark in 2020, and Block Club reported owners Mike and Laura Medina have been working to restore and reopen the tavern as East Side Tap.
• 1393-99 W. Lake St. in the Fulton Market District, formerly home to La Luce Italian restaurant, This four-story building was constructed in 1892, and features a limestone and red brick façade and pressed metal work. The Chicago Commission on Landmarks notes a faded Schlitz logo on the building, but this building does not have a globe set into the architecture. This building was nearly demolished in 2020, but the demolition was halted and the building was granted landmark designation in 2021.

While they have not earned landmark designation, there are numerous other former tied houses around Chicago, also with striking architecture and often finely wrought brewery logos. These are just a few:

• The former Southport Lanes bowling alley, at 3325 N. Southport Ave. in Lakeview was a Schlitz tied house dating back to 1900 and features a painted globe logo. Southport Lanes opened in 1922 and was known for generations for its old-fashioned atmosphere where people, not machines, set the pins. But the bowling alley closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended up going out of business. GG's Chicken Shop, a project from Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group, has since taken over the space.
• The building at 2001 W. Grand Ave. in West Town, now home to the cocktail bar Friends of Friends, features a restored and painted globe logo just above street level. It also features a neon Schlitz beer sign that formerly hung above the since-shuttered Danny's Tavern in Bucktown, according to Block Club. Friends of Friends opened just last year.
• The building at 2000 W. Armitage Ave. in Bucktown, which featured a rust-colored Schlitz globe and blond brickwork. The building was controversially whitewashed in 2024 — the Schlitz globe was painted white too.

Several other former Schlitz-tied houses can also be found around Chicago, as well as tied houses formerly linked to other breweries. The venerable Skylark at 2149 S. Halsted St., in Pilsen began as a Birk Bros. tied house — hence the letter B seen set in a diamond over Cermak Road.

The former Happy Village bar at 1059 N. Wolcott Ave. in East Ukrainian Village, which most recently has been undergoing renovations, was a Peter Hand Brewery tied house and featured a stone inlay of that brewery's logo of a letter P held in a hand. Peter Hand Brewing was the last brewery in Chicago when it closed in 1978, and brewing did not return to Chicago until Goose Island Beer Co. arrived several years later. The Peter Hand logo is also preserved on the façade of the Cost Plus World Market at 1623 N. Sheffield Ave. the former site of its brewery.

Blatz, Stege, and other breweries also operated tied houses in Chicago that in some cases remain standing, Forgotten Chicago noted.

Boutros told the court the decision to dismiss charges was due to improper handling of the grand jury proceedings by the lead prosecutor in the case. A rare federal trial for misdemeanor charges set to begin next week was also canceled.

Lawyers for the defendants had argued for federal prosecutors to submit the unredacted transcript of the three grand jury sessions that led to the indictment in October 2025 to be given to the judge to review. 

A grand jury indicted the original six defendants on a count of felony conspiracy for their involvement in a protest in late September 2025 outside the Broadview facility. Then federal prosecutors dropped all charges against two of the defendants in March and, in April, dropped the conspiracy charge against the remaining defendants, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh.

Speaking after court, defense attorney Chris Parente said the actions by federal prosecutors with the grand jury "should shame every American."

"We have a Department of Justice that hides behind the grand jury in selling these indictments against Mr. Comey, against Don Lemon, against Brian Straw and the rest of the Broadview Six, saying, 'Hey, it's not us, we have a grand jury, a fair and impartial grand jury,'" Parente said. "Shame."

Parente, who was a federal prosecutor for 15 years, said he had never heard of anything as bad as the conduct in the Broadview Six grand jury sessions. He said that while he has not yet been able to review the unredacted transcripts, Judge April Perry gave a summary in court of her impressions. She said she had reviewed thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts in her career and had never seen anything worse than what she saw in these pages.

Parente said during the grand jury sessions, prosecutors used vouching, which he called a "101 no-no for any prosecutor," kicked out grand jury members who disagreed with them, did not disclose that a No True Bill – which indicates no indictment – had been returned to either the defense or the public. Parente also said that after receiving the No True Bill from one grand jury, they re-presented their case after excluding grand jurors who disagreed with them. The grand jury then returned a True Bill to indict the "Broadview Six."

Parente also said that while Judge Perry thought only 30 lines in the transcript had been redacted, prosecutors actually left out entire pages and never informed her.

Parente did credit U.S. Atty. Boutros, saying this is the second time he "made the tough decision to dismiss a high-profile case."

"I just wish he wouldn't try them in the first place," Parente added.

Parente said he will make a motion for sanctions for their clients so they can get their attorney's fees back, and in the hearings over those sanctions, he expects the prosecutors to testify in court regarding their conduct, and the defense will be able to cross-examine.

He also said they plan to file a claim with the Department of Justice's new "anti-weaponization" fund for financial relief for their clients.

Brian Straw, an Oak Park village trustee and defendant, said he was relieved to be exonerated, but fighting the charges was "never just about me and my co-defendants; it's about our First Amendment Rights, about having a justice system that serves the interest of justice and the public, not the whims of those in power."

Kat Abughazaleh also spoke after court, saying she didn't expect the charges to be dismissed Thursday and was relieved they were. She also said the unjust prosecution was the point all along.

"All of us are normal people, and we have been subjected to hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and immeasurable stress," she said. "The point is financial and psychological torture. That's what this government is trying to do."

Boutros did not speak after court on Thursday. CBS News Chicago reached out to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which said it does not have a comment beyond what was said in court. 

Capitol News Illinois contributed to this report. 

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The House Gun Violence Prevention Committee voted 9-5 along party lines on Wednesday to pass House Bill 4471, which seeks to ban the sale of any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar in Illinois. Supporters say that design can be altered to install an already illegal switch, ultimately turning the pistol into a machine gun.

John Weber, the Illinois director of the National Rifle Association, said banning that design would ban Glocks from being sold in Illinois. But like the state's ban on assault weapons, it would not apply to people who currently own that type of gun.

Bill sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Orland Park, called the bill "a consumer product safety measure" that "continues to support smart, sensible gun ownership."

Slaughter said consumers still have other pistols to choose from that do not use the same firing mechanism design as Glock, such as Henry County-based Springfield Armory.

Advocates said the goal is to put pressure on Glock to change their design to make it impossible for their guns to be modified with a switch. Lawmakers in California banned the sale of guns with the design beginning July 1, while legislators in Maryland and Connecticut have approved similar policies in recent weeks.

"The Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act will go to the root cause of the source by holding the gun industry accountable," said Kathleen Sances, president of the Gun Violence Prevention PAC. "By requiring the industry to put a safer design, we can prevent convertible deaths from being made in the first place."

Slaughter said it's a change Glock should easily be able to make since the company sells a model in Europe that would comply with his bill, though it is not sold in the United States. Glock did not respond to a request for comment.

Slaughter said Chicago police have recovered 1,300 modified Glocks used in crimes and argued that banning its easily modified design is paramount to protect public safety. The bill's appearance in Springfield comes nearly two years after Chicago sued Glock, alleging the company makes guns that it knows can be easily modified with illegal switches. The lawsuit is still making its way through the courts.

Republicans argued Democrats are misplacing their blame on gun owners for violent crimes.

"As a legal gun owner, there's nothing I want more than for gun violence to stop because every time some criminal goes out with a gun, you all threaten to take away my rights to protect my family," said Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer, R-Murrayville.

Weber said he doubts the bill would meaningfully reduce gun violence and it raises legal questions since Glocks could be considered "common use" guns. The NRA has already filed a lawsuit challenging California's law under that basis.

Mental health checks

A separate bill also approved by the committee on Wednesday seeks to streamline mental health evaluations to determine whether a person can have their Firearm Owner Identification returned after receiving mental health treatment.

House Bill 5209, which also passed on a partisan 9-5 vote, establishes new training requirements for providers that make evaluations about a person's mental fitness to get their FOID card back. It also establishes new requirements people must follow to complete the mental heath evaluations.

But gun rights groups raised broader concerns about existing state law, which restricts people who have been a patient at a mental health facility from having a FOID card for five years. Illinois State Rifle Association lobbyist Ed Sullivan said the bill takes steps to rectify broader problems with the law, but lawmakers should consider further amendments.

"A woman commits herself for postpartum depression. She goes in for evaluation; she goes in for treatment, and you know, two-three months later — clean bill of health," Sullivan said. "Why should that person lose their FOID card for five years?"

Davidsmeyer said he's concerned the law scares people away from seeking mental health treatment over fear they will lose their permit to own a gun and have to give up a hobby like hunting.

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The Field is opening a new exhibit, the "Pokémon Fossil Museum" Friday, a special exhibition from Japan that compares fossils of popular characters from the Pokémon video game series with ancient life forms found in real-world fossils.

The exhibit at the Field is the first time it's been on display outside of Japan.

The exhibit was developed by the Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, the Pokémon Company group and the Field Museum.

If you can't make it this weekend, don't worry – the exhibit will be on display at the Field until April 2027.

You must purchase a timed entry ticket to the Pokémon Fossil Museum as an add-on to a general admission ticket to the Field Museum. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here. 

In the days counting down to the franchise finale, a stream of prominent guests and fellow late-night hosts took their place in the seat beside Colbert to share stories, laughs and some emotional moments. 

Actor Tom Hanks gifted him a typewriter. "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart brought something to help him relax: two massage chairs and a surprise serenade from Andra Day. 

Colbert and David Letterman, the show's host when it debuted in 1993, hurled furniture from the set off the roof of the theater — a nod to one of Letterman's classic stunts, accompanied by some choice words for the corporate bosses.

"You folks wouldn't be in the theater if it weren't for me, and Stephen wouldn't be here if it weren't for me, and we rebuilt this theater, and then Stephen came in and look at this, it's like the Bellagio," Letterman said on the show last week. "As we all understand, you can take a man's show, you can't take a man's voice." 

David Byrne joined the show on Tuesday and he and Colbert, in matching blue suits, performed the Talking Heads classic "Burning Down the House." 

Bruce Springsteen, in the midst of his "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour, made a guest appearance on Wednesday.

The guests for Thursday's finale were not revealed in advance.

CBS announced back in July that it would end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and retire "The Late Show" franchise at the end of this season. The company said it was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night."

That explanation was met with skepticism from some viewers and media critics who suspected political motives, as Colbert has been an outspoken critic of President Trump.

"You have maintained such grace through this process," Stewart said on the show this week. Fellow late-night host Jimmy Fallon, of NBC's "Tonight Show," said,"I think it's odd the way it ended for you. And it's a bummer because I wanted to do this longer with you."

Last week, Colbert was joined by a lineup of Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver — a reunion of "Strike Force Five," the podcast the five hosts created when their shows went off the air during the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023. 

"You guys have been wonderful friends and great models for me, and I'm so glad to know and love all of you," Colbert told them.

In recognition of Colbert's final show, Kimmel and Fallon both planned to air reruns on Thursday.

Colbert, who is 62, took over as host of "The Late Show" in September 2015 after Letterman retired from the role he'd held for 22 years.

Before "The Late Show," Colbert spent nine years hosting "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central and had been a fan-favorite correspondent on "The Daily Show" under Stewart.

Colbert developed his own distinctive style behind the desk at the Ed Sullivan Theater, balancing humor, political satire and thoughtful interviews. 

Back when the franchise first launched, Letterman told "CBS This Morning," "It's me in a suit with peculiar-looking hair, depending on the humidity, and we just try to do an amusing, silly, entertaining show." After Colbert took over, "The Late Show" became more known for its political bent and commentary on current events. 

Along with its celebrities and musical guests, the show gave viewers a more personal look at Colbert himself, who was also known to weave his devout Catholic faith into his monologues and interviews, even saying he wanted Pope Leo XIV to be a guest on the show before it ended.

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" had been the No. 1 program in late night for nine consecutive seasons, CBS said last year. In September, it won the Emmy for outstanding talk series and received a standing ovation from the Emmys crowd.

"I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late-night tradition, which I hope continues long after we're no longer doing this show," Colbert said in accepting the award.

CBS announced last month that Byron Allen's "Comics Unleashed" will replace Colbert's show in the 11:35 p.m. ET time slot.

Allen told "CBS Mornings" Wednesday that the cancellation of "The Late Show" was a "very unfortunate event" and said he will try to hold onto the late-night audience.

"I love Stephen Colbert. I'm a big fan," Allen said.

When Colbert came on stage and broke the news of the show's cancellation to his audience last summer, he said, "I've had the pleasure and the responsibility of sharing what we do every day with you in front of this camera for the last 10 years."

"It is a fantastic job. I wish somebody else was getting it," he said.

More recently, Colbert told People magazine in an interview that he tried to "never take for granted filming in the Ed Sullivan Broadway theater, having that tremendous audience or having the ability to work with the funniest people I know every day and make jokes about the things that make me most anxious." 

"You can't do this forever. … Who knows, maybe CBS saved my life," Colbert told People. "Because it takes a lot of bone marrow to do the show every day, and now I'll be stepping down with enough time, enough energy to do other things that I want to do."

After the final episode, the set where he held forth for more than a decade will be donated to the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.

Celebrity guests have been reflecting on what the show's ending means to them, with Hanks saying, "I don't know how the entertainment industrial complex is going to survive without you." 

"Thank you so much for holding the space for laughter," Oprah Winfrey told Colbert before turning to the crowd during an episode last month. "Has he not held the space for laughter for us in our lives and been there for us?" 

Watch "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on CBS television stations or stream on Paramount+.

The CBS late-night show is donating the set to the museum.

Colbert, of course, has extensive roots in Chicago — graduating from Northwestern University, performing at Second City, and taking up residence in an apartment in the Old Town neighborhood. He went back and visited that apartment for a segment this week.

The Smithsonian also reportedly made a request for the set, but "The Late Show" said it has already been promised to Chicago.

The Colbert desk in the Museum of Broadcast Communications' possession was used by Colbert during a week during the 2024 Democratic National Convention when he broadcast live from Chicago. The desk was in the lobby of the CBS Chicago Broadcast Center at Block 37 for a while afterward.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications also has desks from NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon, and the same show of decades past with Johnny Carson. They are part of the exhibitions "The Johnny Carson Centennial" and "The Evolution of Late-Night Television."

Founded by the late television and radio producer, host, and political analyst Bruce DuMont, the Museum of Broadcast Communications is located at a pop-up site at 440 W. Randolph St. in the West Loop.

Colbert will take the stage one last time at the Ed Sullivan Theater for the final broadcast of "The Late Show" on CBS Thursday night, before the curtain comes down on more than 30 years of late-night TV history.

CBS announced back in July that it would end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and retire "The Late Show" franchise at the end of this season. The company said it was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night."

Border Tails was among the shelters that took in more than a dozen beagles rescued from Ridglan Farms, a controversial research-breeding facility in Wisconsin that's faced years of criticism over animal treatment.

Activists broke into the facility in March in an effort to remove beagles being bred for laboratory testing. Then, about a month later, hundreds of activists and protesters returned to Ridglan Farms, where they clashed with police. Some were tear gassed and pepper sprayed. 

Eventually, Ridglan Farms agreed to sell 1,500 of the facility's roughly 2,000 beagles, which were then transferred to rescue organizations across the country, including Border Tails and PAWS Chicago. 

Harleigh Garcia with Border Tails confirmed all of the rescued dogs are now in foster care.   

 PAWS Chicago also welcomed 25 beagles from the massive rescue operation.  

TV personality Guiliana Rancic joined the rescue efforts and said she was in Ridglan pulling the dogs out.

"It was pretty incredible, and you can imagine it was a range of emotions," Rancic said. 

Of course, Garcia  said Border Tails' response to the request for housing the dogs was, "How many do you need me to take?" 

Now Border Tails is looking for forever homes for the dogs, currently in foster care. You can apply for adoption here. 

Air France boarded the passenger "in error on a flight to the United States," a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson told CBS News in a statement. The spokesperson said that the passenger "should not have boarded the plane" because of "entry restrictions put in place to reduce the risk of the Ebola virus." CBP did not say when the person had last been in the Congo.

Air France said the flight was diverted "at the request of U.S. authorities" and said there was "no medical emergency on board." 

When reached about the incident, the Federal Aviation Administration directed CBS News to CBP. CBS News has also reached out to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for comment. 

According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, Air France Flight 378 from Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport landed at Montreal Trudeau International Airport at 5:15 p.m. ET. 

The current Ebola outbreak centered in eastern Congo was confirmed May 15 by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization said Wednesday there were at least 600 suspected Ebola cases so far, including 139 suspected deaths from the virus. Health officials say the outbreak is linked to the Bundibugyo strain, for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments.

Removed passenger showed no symptoms, Canada says  

The passenger was assessed by a Public Health Agency of Canada Quarantine Officer, the agency said in a statement. The officer determined that the passenger was asymptomatic. 

The passenger was then placed on a flight back to Paris, the agency said. 

Ebola can only spread if a person is showing symptoms, according to the CDC and CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious diseases specialist who deployed to West Africa during a past Ebola outbreak.

"You cannot transmit Ebola, you cannot transmit it at all, if you do not have symptoms," Gounder told "CBS Mornings" on Thursday. 

"Should people be worried about this? No. You are not going to catch Ebola from sitting next to somebody who doesn't have symptoms on the plane," she said. 

Travel restrictions 

The CDC announced on May 18 that people without U.S. passports who had traveled to Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the past three weeks would be restricted from entering the country. 

The Department of Homeland Security will require all U.S.-bound flights carrying foreign travelers who have been in Congo, Uganda or South Sudan at any point in the previous 21 days to fly into Washington-Dulles International Airport in Virginia, the agency said Wednesday. On Thursday, the State Department said all U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who had been in the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan before entering the U.S. must also only fly into Washington-Dulles. 

The CDC and DHS will "apply enhanced public health screening" at the airport, the State Department said. It's unclear how the DHS and State Department rules impact the CDC's earlier order.

Gounder said the decision to funnel passengers to one airport is "not dissimilar" to what officials did during the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, when passengers from affected regions could only enter the U.S. through three designated airports. The system is not meant to "prevent flight or prevent passengers from coming here entirely," she said, but allows for health screenings. 

Gounder also noted pre-existing immigration restrictions meant "there wasn't much travel happening" between the affected countries and the U.S.

Passenger recounts confusion, concern 

Deborah Mistor, a business class passenger aboard the flight, told CBS News in an interview Wednesday night that the passenger disembarked from the back of the plane at Montreal Trudeau. The remaining passengers were then flown from Montreal to Detroit aboard the same aircraft, she said. 

Mistor said the passengers were notified by the captain about four hours before they were initially due to arrive in Detroit that U.S. authorities were not allowing the plane to land in the U.S. and the flight was being diverted. The captain did not provide a reason for why authorities were not letting the plane land, she said.

"I think enough people must have been questioning what was going on because 30 minutes later, he came back on and said that he wanted to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the plane, there were no technical difficulties, that it was strictly because of U.S. authorities not allowing us to land in the U.S.," Mistor told CBS News.

She said that flight attendants then put on face masks.

"They're telling you it's OK, it's not a mechanical issue, but everybody has a mask on," Mistor said.

Gounder said that since the passenger had no symptoms, the decision to mask was "really sending the wrong message." 

"That is going to be scaring people unnecessarily," she said. 

Police said it was 3:50 a.m. when the thieves damaged the front door at Salerno's, at 1201 W. Grand Ave., and made entry.

Owner Michael Salerno said thieves stole a cash box from a video gambling terminal.

The thieves also attempted to take an ATM on site, but were not successful. But police said the ATM was damaged.

The thieves fled the scene in an unknown direction. There was no report of arrests as of early Thursday afternoon.

The Kane County State's Attorney's office said Arthur Weathers, 54, of Elburn, sexually abused a teenage girl over whom he held a position of authority between 1999 and 2001. At the time, Weathers was the teen's volleyball coach at First Kill volleyball club in Elgin, prosecutors said.

Weathers served as an assistant volleyball coach and head volleyball coach at First Kill from 1999 to 2003, prosecutors said. The victim was 16 when the abuse began, prosecutors said.

Weathers also works as a forensic chemist for the Illinois State Police, a position he has held since 1998, prosecutors said.

He is due back on July 15 in Kane County.

The fire was reported during the 7 a.m. hour in the 1800 block of North Cleveland Avenue, just north of Menomonee Street.

Firefighters were seen on the roof of the two-story home, and had cut a hole in the roof for ventilation.

The severity of the fire and whether there were any injuries were not immediately learned.

The residential area of the Lincoln Park-Old Town community where the building is located is a mix of historic homes and new luxury construction.

The fire prompted a massive response, but did not cause any human injuries.

A kitchen fire was reported on the 17th floor of the high-rise at 2 E. Oak St., causing light smoke.

The Fire Department said an animal died in the fire. The owner of the pet was checked out, but was not hospitalized.

The Fire Department believed that the pet that died was a dog, but could not say definitively.

The Chicago Fire Department called a still-and-box alarm, which prompted a massive response that shut down State Street south of Bellevue Place and halted at least one southbound Chicago Transit Authority bus.

The Fire Department asked residents on the 17th floor to shelter in place as they ventilated.

An EMS Plan 1 for five ambulances was also called, as per protocol for a high-rise fire, but the Fire Department said no one was taken to the hospital.

The fire was out by 7:25 a.m. The Fire Department searched the building and did not find anyone.

The cause of the fire was under investigation Thursday morning.

The two companies are locked in a dispute over private listings, where homes are marketed to select buyers and brokers before appearing publicly online.

Zillow recently adopted a policy that would ban any listing that did not appear on their platform within 24 hours of hitting the market. MRED argues the rule unfairly targets the Compass brokerage, which they've partnered with to create a nationwide private listing network.

Zillow has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit as part of the dispute. In a news release, MRED said the lawsuit is over nine listings that were listed privately by brokers before going up on Zillow.  The company argues Zillow is trying to impose its own rules on listings they say are "lawfully marketed under MRED policies and at the discretion of sellers and their brokers."

MRED said Zillow's primary concerns are about their "ability to sustain monetization of consumer traffic and agent leads," and said the online platform "claimed the excluded listings are 'stale' and inconsistent with its 'brand promise.'"

Zillow, in turn, claimed in a response on their website that MRED rewrote their data licensing agreement last October "specifically to block Zillow's transparency standards," that those rules didn't exist when Zillow signed its agreement with MRED and accuses MRED of changing them "after Compass CEO Robert Reffkin personally emailed MLSs across the country urging them to cut off Zillow's feeds."

Zillow also claims the disputed listings were all Compass Private Exclusive listings in California, Georgia and Florida, not in the Chicago area where MRED operates.

"They're demanding that Zillow display any listing that was first hidden from buyers, no matter how many, no matter where. If Zillow agrees today, the number tomorrow is not nine," the company wrote on their website.

Zillow has asked a federal court to restore the listings. 

A group of hundreds of politicians, community activists and religious leaders had asked for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of misconduct against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration Enforcement agents during the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago.

They argued Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke worked too closely with federal agencies to bring cases against them, and had abandoned her duty to investigate the actions of federal immigration agents.

O'Neill Burke denied any conflict of interest, and her team argued, "Illinois law simply does not permit prosecutors to initiate criminal investigations and bring prosecutions because the general public and elected officials would like them to."

The judge ruled the petitioners did not prove the state's attorney abandoned her duty to investigate federal agents, nor did they prove she had a conflict of interest. The judge said an allegation of a relationship with law enforcement  is not enough to establish a conflict of interest.

The judge did say the allegations of criminal wrongdoing by federal agents against Chicagoans during Operation Midway Blitz "compelling" and "unprovoked," and said the court has protocol for these allegations that was not followed.

Illinois State Police recently began an investigation into the fatal shooting of an undocumented father by ICE agents in Franklin Park, Illinois, in September 2025. 

Whispers about bald eaglets in the city began in early April. They hatched at the beginning of May in a park on the Southeast Side, which conservation experts say is a sign local ecosystem restoration efforts are working.

The final three names were chosen from more than 3,200 submissions. They are Migizi, Marian and Clawumet.

Migizi is the Ojibwe word for "bald eagle." The Ojibwe are one of three tribes in the Council of the Three Fires, which also includes to Odawa and Bodewadmi tribes. Chicago is located on the traditional Territories of the Three Fire Peoples.

Marian is named after lifelong Chicago environmentalist and civil rights activist Marian R. Byrnes, for whom the Marian R. Byrnes Natural Area in the South Side is also named.

Clawumet is a play on "Calumet" which is where the nest is located.

Voting is open on the Park District's website until 11:59 p.m. on June 1. The eaglets will be named for the two most popular choices. 

Hammond police said a suspect was taken into custody after the baby was safely found at a hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Indiana State Police initially said the victim was reported missing after being seen on Thursday at 4:20 a.m. wearing a white shirt and brown pants. 

Police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Deandry Sabbs. Police said Sabbs was last seen driving a gray 4-door Nissan sedan with unknown Illinois plates.

By a vote of 458 to 201, faculty approved a measure that caps the number of A grades at 20%, plus four additional per class, the university confirmed Wednesday. There is no limit to the number of A minuses or other grades that can be awarded. A separate measure that would have allowed courses to opt out of the cap was rejected, 364 to 292.

The new policy, which only applies to undergraduate students, goes into effect in the fall of 2027 and will be reassessed after three years.

Why the grading change at Harvard?

In a statement, members of the Subcommittee on Grading said it was a critical policy for students because "[a] Harvard A grade will now tell them, as well as employers and graduate schools, something real about what a student has achieved."

Harvard began considering the change after the subcommittee found that too many students were getting A's. They said employers and graduate school admissions offices said Harvard transcripts "no longer provide them useful information."  

"Today the Harvard faculty voted to make their grades mean what they say they mean. For decades, grade inflation has been a collective-action problem: everyone saw it, but no one faculty member could fix it alone. The faculty have now taken a major step to fix it together," the subcommittee said.

Students react to Harvard grade cap

Some students told WBZ-TV they were concerned it would create a more competitive environment. "It just seems like more of a competition and it's like already a competition to be there," said student Abidah Shaikh.

Harvard Business School student Rachel Carp worries it may leave students applying for graduate programs at a disadvantage. "I wonder if the med schools and the law schools and other sort of rigorous grad school programs would also understand, and potentially have a lower GPA expectation," Carp said. 

According to a university report, A's accounted for 60% of the grades awarded to undergraduate students in 2025. That was up from 40% in 2015 and 20% in 2005.

Amanda Claybaugh, dean of undergraduate education at Harvard, praised the change.

"This is a consequential vote. It will, I believe, strengthen the academic culture of Harvard; it will also, I hope, encourage other institutions to confront similar questions with the same level of rigor and courage," Claybaugh said. "This vote is an important step toward ensuring that our grading system better serves its central purposes: giving students meaningful feedback, recognizing genuine distinction, and sustaining the academic mission of the College."

Harvard University Association co-presidents Zach Berg and Daniel Zhao in a statement expressed disappointment that students were not consulted more during the process.

"Although we recognize the issue with the status quo, we are disappointed that student voices have not been centered throughout the decision-making process," they said. "However, we will continue to fight for students' academic interests over the coming year about how we can best prepare students before this comes into effect in the 2027 academic year."